Land and Family-Based Teacher Education: Collective Liftoffs Toward Thriving Socio-Ecological Futures

• In Event: Designing Field-Based Learning for Connectedness During Times of Disconnect and Crisis

Abstract

This paper examines the development of a land and family-based teacher education program that nurtures systems of relationality across home and school towards the future thriving of Indigenous and working-class communities in Thailand. We employ a mix of qualitative research and focus groups, walking and storying homeland villages (Marin & Bang, 2018), and intergenerational curricular design. Our study suggests that deepening systems of relations of teacher education were important “lift-offs” for teachers and the ways that they understood their role in the larger ecology of life. In particular, we characterize the various ways in which teachers, researchers and families grew in relation with each other and nurtured a sense of connectedness through this collaboration.

Authors

• Meixi *, University of Minnesota

• Sukanda Kongkaew